| DE | SB233 | Pass | This Act adds the requirement that vehicles stop at railroad signals for all on-track equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-25
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB351 | Pass | In December 2016, the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement issued final regulations titled "Flexibility, Efficiency, and Modernization in Child Support Enforcement Programs," 81 Fed. Reg. 93,492 (Dec. 20, 2016) (codified at 42 C.F.R ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB356 | Pass | This Act allows the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to lease historic structures on State public lands to individuals or corporate entities. The lessee would be required to renovate and maintain the structure up to the appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB204 | Pass | Section 1 through 4 of this Act establish interim standards and criteria in order to permit redevelopment projects to move forward while revised regulations are being drafted. The interim standards set forth in this Act would effectively "sunset...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB229 | Pass | This Act acknowledges that the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has been collecting natural resource data for years without the consent of the respective property owners. From the date of this Act forward, the Department must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB113 | Enroll | This bill changes the earned income tax credit from nonrefundable to refundable. This bill creates a table for the percentage of earned income credit for tax years 2018 and after. Currently, if spouses file a joint federal return but separate State r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 1 NO 3 ABSENT |
| DE | HB451 | Enroll | This Act stabilizes revenue for the Hazardous Substances Cleanup Act ("HSCA") Fund ("the Fund") by minimizing the wide swings in revenue due to oil prices changes. Under this Act, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-01
Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO |
| DE | HB298 | Enroll | This bill creates a special license plate for honorably discharged veterans of the United States military.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB455 | Enroll | This Act fulfills recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB457 | Pass | This bill provides for a residential electrician license. A residential electrician license allows for a person to conduct residential electrical work without having to be under the direct onsite supervision of a licensed master electrician, master e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB244 | Enroll | This bill provides technical changes and also creates the Committee on Employment and Social Services consolidating the work conducted by the Welfare Employment Committee and Social Service Advisory Council created by Executive Order Six-Eight signed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-30
Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB156 | Enroll | This bill updates requirements for handguns used for deer hunting by adding a range and limit to allowable handgun calibers to accommodate changing handgun availability while maintaining public safety and handgun hunting efficacy. This bill also allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB462 | Enroll | This Act fulfills recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Overview and Sunset Committee by making amendments to the statute governing the Board of Occupational Therapy Practice to make Chapter 20 of Title 24 consistent with other Title 24 board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR71 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution supports the Ad Hoc Committee for Child Support Formula Review's proposed revision to Family Court Rule of Civil Procedure 506.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR69 | Engross | This Senate Concurrent Resolution creates a Delaware Youth Drug Prevention Curriculum Task Force to examine available drug prevention programs and to recommend a course of action to educate our youth about the dangers of drug, alcohol, and tobacco us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-28
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB124 | Engross | Importers, manufacturers and dealers of destructive weapons are licensed and regulated under Federal law. Under existing Delaware law, importers, manufacturers and dealers of destructive weapons are not permitted to deliver them to purchasers in Dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 7 NO 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB335 | Enroll | This Act establishes the Delaware School Safety and Security Fund to allow certain eligible public schools to partially or fully fund projects intended to improve school facilities and training relating to safety or security. The Department of Educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB346 | Enroll | This Act establishes the High Needs Educator Student Loan Payment Program. The Program allows qualified applicants to apply for a payment from the State to the applicants lending agency, to pay a portion of the applicants student loan debt. The purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-27
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | SB206 | Enroll | Far too many Delawareans have been personally affected by addiction and substance use disorder and have experienced the tragedy of watching loved ones suffer from this chronic disease. Nearly 2,000 individuals in Delaware suffered a non-fatal overdos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB419 | Engross | Unmanned aircraft systems are capable of introducing contraband into detention facilities without undergoing correctional officer inspections. This bill seeks to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) to introduce contraband into dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-26
To Senate Judicial & Community Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB459 | Intro | This Act requires insurers to check if an individual owes child support arrears before making a payment to the individual and permits the Division of Child Support Services to attach a lien to an insurance payment awarded pursuant to a settlement or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-21
Amendment HA 1 to HB 459 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HCR34 | Intro | This concurrent resolution establishes a Task Force to investigate the cost of special education and make recommendations related to cost efficiency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
Amendment HA 1 to HS 1 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB468 | Intro | This Act creates the crime of wrongful use of voter registration information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-19
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB49 | Pass | This Act requires all new school construction and schools undergoing major renovations to incorporate the following safety features: a secured vestibule to be used as the primary entrance to screen visitors, installation of ballistic resistant glass ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB133 | Intro | This Act acknowledges that the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has been collecting natural resource data for years without the consent of the respective property owners. This Act further prohibits the dissemination of natura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-14
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | HB460 | Intro | This Act is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment reflecting the recommendations of the Advisory Panel to the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC) on Potential Fiscal Controls and Budget Smoothing Mechanisms established as p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-13
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB311 | Pass | The Board of Clinical Social Work Examiners (Board) has worked several years to amend Chapter 39, Title 24 of the Delaware Code to update the statute governing social work licensure and practice in this State. The Boards work has included collaborati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-11
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB240 | Intro | This Act requires a physician to offer a patient ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services before terminating a pregnancy and provides civil and criminal penalties for the failure of a physician to comply with this requirement....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-09
To Senate Sunset Committee |
| DE | HB140 | Pass | This non-punitive, public-health oriented bill seeks to codify certain sections of the federal law known as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), as amended by the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), that requires states ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB448 | Intro | This act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that protects parental rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-06-07
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB170 | Pass | This legislation, the Angel Investor Job Creation and Innovation Act for Small Technology Companies, creates an incentive for qualified angel investors to invest capital in qualified Delaware small technology companies..
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB53 | Pass | This bill allows ground-based and hand-held sparklers and certain other nonexplosive, nonairborne novelty items regulated by the federal government to be sold and used in the State. The bill does not legalize firecrackers, bottle rockets, aerials, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB90 | Pass | This bill would allow for a student to participate in the Inspire Scholarship Program for eight continuous semesters instead of the current six. This would allow a student to use Inspire Scholarships for each of the semesters during a traditional col...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SCR43 | Engross | Designating February 6, 2018 as "Ronald Reagan Day" in Delaware
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB205 | Intro | The Act protects the life of the unborn child at a time when the potential for the child to survive outside the womb increases, especially with the advancement of medical procedures. Also, there is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-10
To Senate Health, Children & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB103 | Pass | The Act amends Section 916 of Title 11 of the Code so that the statutory penalties for the crime of home improvement fraud increase as the amount of the loss to the victim increases, using the same scale applicable to Theft under Section 841 of Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB301 | Pass | This Act allows the various at-large members of the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council to be appointed for 3-year terms and be eligible for reappointment. This change is requested by the Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB309 | Pass | This Act codifies the practice of the Joint Legislative Oversight and Sunset Committee to recommend the continuation of an agency unless or until certain conditions are met or modifications are made.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SCR59 | Engross | This resolution proclaims May 2018 Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-09
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR83 | Engross | This concurrent resolution proclaims May 2018 as " Community Action Month" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-03
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR81 | Engross | This Resolution recognizes Delaware's Byways Program as one of the best ways to experience Delaware's beauty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB134 | Pass | This Act establishes an Educational Support Professional of the year award program throughout the State. Through this legislation, the state will formally honor and recognize the work educational support professionals, such as paraprofessionals, food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB95 | Intro | This bill establishes a 20 year retirement for correction officers and specified peace officers within the State Employees Pension plan. The bill amends the multiplier prospectively for the calculation of pension benefits for correction officers and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Amendment SA 2 to SB 95 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | SCR50 | Engross | This Resolution recognizes April 2018 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-19
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB51 | Pass | This Act clarifies the definition of "subsequent offense" to mean a like offense occurring within 3 years of the former offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB317 | Intro | This bill protects non-profit organizations that accept and persons who donate wild game to non-profit organizations or provides services related to the processing of such donated wild game from certain types of liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB341 | Intro | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that requires the General Assembly to wait 48 hours from the introduction of the budget appropriation bill, bond and capital improvement act, and act making appropriations for certain grants-in-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SCR31 | Enroll | This concurrent resolution establishes the Veterans Higher Education Task Force to study and make findings and recommendations regarding veterans access to higher education in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB315 | Intro | This Bill requires all statewide and other candidates that may appear on the general election ballot to disclose whether or not all their State and Federal personal income tax returns are filed and any tax due has been paid and whether or not all the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB291 | Pass | This Act clarifies that the representative appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services to the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council shall serve as the Councils temporary chair for the purposes of organizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
Signed by Governor |
